Synonyms of gender

Noun

1. gender, grammatical gender, grammatical category, syntactic category

usage: a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness

2. sex, gender, sexuality, physiological property

usage: the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles; "she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus"

Definition and meaning of gender (Dictionary)